ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,135, issued on April 21, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Methods and systems for performing object dimensioning" was invented by Peter Leslie Cho (Westford, Mass.) and Abdullah Shamil Hashim Al Dujailli (Shrewsbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure include isolating a target scene object from multiple images of a time-of-flight (TOF) sensor. Multiple images from a TOF sensor can be transformed into multiple three-dimensional (3D) point clouds. In each of the multiple 3D point clouds, one or more large planes having a minimal threshold size can be identified. A common 3D...